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2000.
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conforms to our definition of the
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species complex, possessing character states definitive for the group including paired, sublateral setal tufts on the terminal male abdomen (
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); a strongly bent male paramere (
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); and an apicolateral excavation on the abdominal segment
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of male (
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). The species was originally described from a series of
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taken on Biak Island, off northwestern New
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(J. Polhemus &amp; D.
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), with
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from other scattered locations on New
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proper, both north and south of the central mountains, but excluding the Papuan Peninsula.
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Although widespread, this species is generally localized and uncommon, being far less regularly encountered in New
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than is
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, with which it is syntopic. It can be easily distinguished from this latter species by its color pattern (J. Polhemus &amp; D.
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), and by the much smaller number of spinelike setae (only 34) in each of the paired tufts on the male terminal abdomen (segment
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), with the bases of these tufts being covered by the posterior margin of segment VII. Ecologically,
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seems to prefer lentic habitats, including rain forest pools, sago swamps, and imponded sections of streams between 0 and
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elevation.
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Australasian Region:
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,
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(J. Polhemus &amp; D.
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).
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